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Kai curled up behind me and held me until I fell asleep. “You don’t break my heart, either,” he whispered as I drifted off.

Chapter 34

Kai’s POV

I heard Katie crying in her sleep again. It didn’t happen often, but she still had horrible nightmares some nights. I pulled her into a hug and tried to soothe her, but she didn’t calm down like she normally did. I snapped awake and turned on the light to look at her.

“Katie? Come on, Kitkat, talk to me,” I urged her while trying to check to see what the problem was.

“ka-k- call ambulance,” she ground out through clenched teeth.

I didn’t waste another second and scooped her into my arms and ran for the car. I placed her on the back seat so that she could lie down on her side and raced to the hospital. She was pale and sweating. I parked in front of the emergency entrance and gently pulled Katie from the back seat.

She would whimper for a bit and then get quiet, whimper and then get quiet. It reminded me of when my ex was in labor. I knew that wasn’t it, because we had only been together a few months. Katie would know if she were pregnant.

She would know, right?

Thankfully, the hospital got her straight in and started to work. Her white blood cells were elevated indicating an infection so they opted to run a scan to see what was going on.

I sat next to the bed with Katie clutching my hand while she slept. They had given her an injection of valium to calm her down, and some pain medicine so that she could rest. It was just a waiting game at this point. I had messaged her parents and let them know that we were here. Katie didn’t like to share information with her parents, but I felt like hospital trips in the middle of the night were ok.

The doctor came in, and I could tell by his expression that he knew what was wrong. I started to wake Katie, but he stopped me.

“Can we talk outside?” he asked me and I nodded.

I followed him to a private room for family consults, and sat down in the chair that he offered. This was not making me feel any better.

“Katie had an ectopic pregnancy. Her body is trying to abort it to save her life. We’d like to keep her overnight, for observation. With ectopic pregnancies, the risk of complications is relatively high. I’d feel more comfortable with her here in case we need to intervene surgically.”

“She’s pregnant?” I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach. Why didn’t we know?

“After reviewing everything that Katie told us, I don’t think she knew that she was pregnant. I can confirm that the fetus was never viable. There was never a heartbeat. Her body is doing its job, but it’s slow. I’ve put in a prescription to help the process along. If she normally has light cycles, she would have thought everything was normal. This happens more often than you think.”

I took the information that he offered and headed back to Katie’s room. She could have been anywhere from eleven to six weeks pregnant according to the doctor. I thought back to all of the times that we had unprotected sex, and I couldn’t know when it happened. We had been seeing each other for roughly four months now.

Things were going well. She swore that we didn’t live together, but her things were slowly migrating into my closets. She could deny it, but I just kept moving her things in from Andie’s and her parents’ houses.

I sat next to her through the night. I didn’t want someone else to tell her. This was going to crush her. She had told me about losing her child after Ty passed away. She didn’t know that she was pregnant then either. The doctors had told her that severe emotional distress can cause miscarriage. He might as well have told her that she caused it grieving for her husband.

She didn’t tell me all of the details, but I got enough from Andie and Jonas to know that she spiraled pretty bad after that. Andie and one of her sisters had driven out to stay with her, or the military would have had to admit her for psychological concern. I would not have believed them if I didn’t sleep with her every night.

Katie carried so much guilt that it ate at her every night. She was haunted by it. This would not be easy. I didn’t know what to say to her, but I knew that she could get through this with me at her side. The door to the room slid open and the shift nurse came in to check Katie, and brought a small cup with a blue pill.

“Hi, my name is Mary. I am the nurse on duty. Katie, I brought you some medicine that the doctor called in. This will help your body pass the fet-”

I cut her off before she could finish speaking, “Shut up.” I was pissed that this woman was going to tell Katie the worst news and I didn’t want this to crush her even more.

“You don’t say another word. I will give her the medicine when she wakes up and let you know when she has taken it,” I growled at the woman staring at me in shock.

Mary’s face was flushed. “Sir, you have no right to speak to me that way,” she was raising her voice and waking Katie up.

“Get out,” I told her. I was not going to explain our situation, nor was I going to tell a stranger about Katie’s. This wasn’t just a lost pregnancy. This would destroy her.

The nurse tried to argue with me before I stood up. She jumped like I had made a move toward her but all I did was point at the door. “I am asking you to get out, before I push you out the door.”

“Kai?” Katie whimpered groggily from the bed.

I was so angry that I couldn’t move for a second.

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